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Week of 29 June 2015: You ain't seen nothing yet!
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Week of 29 June 2015: You ain't seen nothing yet!

I was taught long ago that one should build quality into a product, not inspect it in after it has been made. Makes a lot of sense, doesn't it? This is why I have always been troubled by the location of gauging systems on paper machines. Look at where they are: at the end of the machine, after the product is made. In the future, we may still have the old stationary gauges in their traditional locations, but I see something totally different right around the corner, perhaps as soon as in five years. What will it be?

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 Management Ability: A Learned or Inherent Skill?
Management Ability: A Learned or Inherent Skill?

During our careers many of us had the desire to advance into the management ranks, leading us to search for tools which could strengthen our ability to accomplish things through or by others. But having completed, not only graduate study courses in industrial management and participating in other individual programs intended to develop successful managers, I question the effectiveness of many of the techniques.

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Metsä Group to sell Metsä Wood's timber upgrading operations in France
Metsä Group to sell Metsä Wood's timber upgrading operations in France

The contemplated transaction is estimated to be completed at the end of October 2015 at the latest.

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